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All this while, Wildrake was busied undoing the clasps of his square-caped cloak. "Off off, ye lendings," he said, "borrowings I should more properly call you "
Ringed as he was by evil, his spirit became strong for good, and he testified like one in the place of final judgment, when the earthly lendings of word and phrase and covering excuse must all be cast aside and the soul stand forth naked and nakedly answer that which is required. "I am a Scot," said Laurence, briefly, and without explanation.
She took the detested lendings in her hand once more; but her repulsion was stronger than shame. 'Never! she cried, shuddering, and flung them far away into the night. Next moment the Doctor had whirled her to the well. The man was there and the lantern; Anastasie closed her eyes and appeared to herself to be about to die.
As Mike sat brooding over his wrongs in his study, after the Sammy incident, Jellicoe came into the room, and, without preamble, asked for the loan of a sovereign. When one has been in the habit of confining one's lendings and borrowings to sixpences and shillings, a request for a sovereign comes as something of a blow. "What on earth for?" asked Mike. "I say, do you mind if I don't tell you?
Happy is he to be admitted among these, happy is he to merit by his wonderful voice to sing their raptures. Here is no humiliation in ready-made lendings; their ecstasy becomes him.
"If you are astounded," returned the other, raising his eyebrows, "I certainly am no less so. As your nephew made note of these lendings, wasn't he equally careful to jot down a memorandum when the debt was discharged?" Mr. Charnock regarded him fixedly, and for a moment seemed in doubt. "You paid back these sums?" "With what kind of action did you credit me?" said Glazzard, quietly.
A mind deeply penetrated with the feeling that all we take and all we are, our joys and the might and grace of life in us, are the mere lendings of mortality like Lear's rags, may come to think man the passive receptacle of power, and the instrument scarce distinguishable from the hand that uses it; the thought is as nigh to St. Paul as to Plato.
The effect of this will be that we shall owe America for interest on the money that it is lending us, and that it will owe us less interest, owing to the blocks of its securities that it is buying back. Against this we shall be able to set debts due to us from our Allies, but if our borrowings and sales of securities exceed our lendings as the war goes on, we shall thereby be poorer.
"She has her own way of estimating us, and treats the state and luxury of Abbotsmead as quite external to her. In her private thoughts, I fear, she treats them as cumbrous lendings that she will throw off after a season, and be gladly quit of their burden." "Better so than in the other extreme.
They went out accordingly, attended by the little scout, traversed the gardens, descended the stairs, and at the bottom the young Templar exclaimed, "And now let us sing, with Ovid, 'In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas Off, off, ye lendings!" he continued, in the same vein. "Via, the curtain that shadowed Borgia!
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